From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2012 - 15:33:36 CST

Hi,
  Can you try out the newer NVIDIA driver version 310.19 and see
if that cures your problem or not?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 04:53:05PM +0100, maria goranovic wrote:
> Hi John
>
> Hi,
> Can you send us the text messages that VMD prints in the
> text console when it starts up? I'm curious to see if it has
> any warnings about the OpenGL driver, and/or what driver is
> reported as active.
>
> rlwrap: Command not found.
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 12 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 62616MB (98%)
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] Quadro 2000D 4 SM_2.1 @ 1.25 GHz, 1.0GB RAM, KTO, OIO,
> ZCP
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro 2000D/PCIe/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(16) MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
> Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (18x17), 3-D (18x17x18), Multitexture (4)
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> Info) /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tcl8.5 /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts
> /usr/local/lib/lib /Projects/johns/tcl/8.5.6/lib_LINUXAMD64/lib
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tk8.5 /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tk8.5/ttk
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/tcl
> /usr/$
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tcl8.5 /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts
> /usr/local/lib/lib /Projects/johns/tcl/8.5.6/lib_LINUXAMD64/lib
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tk8.5 /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tk8.5/ttk
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/tcl
> /usr/$
> after#0
>
>
>
> What output do you get if you run this command?:
> cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
>
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 304.51 Tue Sep 18
> 17:16:56 PDT 2012
> GCC version: gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
>
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:48:03AM +0100, maria goranovic wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am using VMD 1.9.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. VMD was working fine
> till a
> > while ago.
> > Now, when I load up a molecule, I do not see anything displayed as
> Lines.
> > The display is fine if I use any other representation. I have made
> no
> > changes to my .vmdrc file. It seems that this is a result of some
> ubuntu
> > software upgrade.
> > I am also using Nvidia twinview.
> > Has anyone else had a similar problem?
> > --
> > Maria G.
> > Technical University of Denmark
> > Copenhagen
>
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>
> --
> Maria G.
> Technical University of Denmark
> Copenhagen

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